US officer wins racism swimsuit after DNA test

A white US police officer who learned he has sub-Saharan African ancestry through DNA making an are attempting out has won a payout after claiming racial abuse.

Sergeant Cleon Brown, a police officer in Hastings, Michigan, sued the force after alleging his colleagues racially taunted him over his DNA test results.

He claims they mocked him after he revealed that he turned into 18-33% “sub-Saharan African”.

Sgt Brown will now get $sixty five,000 (£forty nine,000) from the metropolis’s insurers.

The 19-one year passe of the police force at the initiating attach sought as a minimal $500,000 in his lawsuit, in accordance with US media.

He is on paid administrative leave till 31 October, when he plans to resign.

Sgt Brown alleges that the police chief referred to him as “Kunta,” an apparent reference to a slave character in the e-book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, whereas other officers whispered “Sad Lives Topic”.

“And it made me so inflamed,” Sgt Brown urged WJBK-News. “I be conscious announcing to the executive, ‘I cannot factor in you correct known as me that.'”

The metropolis had argued that he had taken section in the insensitive jokes, and had himself commented that the outcomes revealed “why he likes rooster so worthy” and that “the 18% is all in my pants”.

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In one incident, Sgt Brown claims that he learned a murky Santa Claus figurine in his Christmas stocking with “18%” written on it.

“I name it straight up racism,” he urged WDIV-News.

This week, the metropolis council agreed to the settlement, announcing this is able to perhaps perhaps well enable Hastings “to heart of attention its efforts and resources on extra productive endeavours”.

“Nonetheless when evaluating the settlement to the associated fee and disruptive tag of defending the case, it turned into in the metropolis’s only passion to acquire to the underside of the case on the terms in the mediated settlement settlement.”